By John McCarthy-01 February 2021 13:00pm
News app Flipboard emulates magazine-curation in digital
Flipboard, the media curation app that organizes news into a magazine format, has long balanced algorithms and human curation. We catch up with its chief executive Mike McCue, who was formerly a board member of Twitter, as he explains what other services could learn from his app – particularly after a long-term weaponization of news saw rioters storm the Capitol.
Mike McCue has long been in the business of making digital content more readable. In 1989 he launched Paper Software, aiming to ”make using a computer as easy as using a piece of paper”. It was 30 years later that this idea was fully realized when Flipboard hit the iPad in 2010 as a centralized news source organized by interest and geography. In 2020, it dug deeper into local news and video with Flipboard TV. It also developed new ways to curate stories with Storyboards. It even